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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE STRAUSE, OF BOONSBORO, MARYLAND. i

HOMINY-MILL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,536, dated September 20, 1859.

To all whom it may concern.' l

Be it known that I, GEORGE STRAUSE, of Boonsboro, in the county ofWashington and State of Maryland, have invented a new and ImprovedHominy-Mill; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specification, Figure 1 being a top Viewof said mill; Figs. 2 and 3, views of opposite sides of the same; Fig.4, an inside view of one of the sides of the body of said mill detached;Fig. 5, a side view, and Fig. 6 an edge view, of the toothedgrinding-shafts; and Fig. 7 is a transverse section of said shaft.

Similar letters indicate like parts in each of the drawings.

The body of my improved hominy mill is in the form of a vertical tuberising from the center of a rectangular base and surmounted by afunnel-shaped head. The said body of the mill is composed of twocorrespondingly shaped sections A A and B B, which are combined witheach other in the manner represented in the drawings; viz: flanches d,cZ, projecting from the inner edges of the base portions A and B of saidsections are combined with each other by means of screw-bolts f, f; andthe upper ends of the tubular portions A and B of said sections areembraced by the closely fitting funnel-shaped cap C, which also servesas a hopper for the said mill. Or the aforesaid sections of the body ofmy improved hominy mill may be combined with each other in any othersuitable manner.

A toothed-shaft D, of the peculiar shape l represented in the drawings,is placed centrally within the vertical tube A B, the teeth of whichshaft act in conjuntcion with the toothed segments g, g, that aresecured to the inner surface of said tube. The journal at the upper endof the shaft D, is received into the bearing m, (Fig. 1,) which projectsfrom the funnel-shaped head C; and the journal at the lower end of saidshaft passes through the opening n, (Fig. 4,) formed for its receptionat the bottom of the tube A, B. A beveled wheel (not shown in thedrawings) is secured to the lower extremity of the journal at the lowerend of the shaft D, and gears into a corresponding wheel on the drivingshaft G, which passes through the rectangular base-portion of the bodyof the mill. The said driving shaft may be turnedV by taking hold of thecrank p, or it may be turned by any other means.

The sliding gate Z, at the bottom of the section B, of the vertical tubeA B, covers the aperture through which the hominy passes from thedisintegrating chamber out into the spout r, which discharges the sameon to the inclined screen E. The said screen E, forms the bottom of thespout H, of the fan-blower F, but the lower end of said. screen inclinessuddenly downward just before reaching the blowing chamber, anddischarges the cleaned hominy at the point h.

The shaft s, of the fan-blower, is banded to the pulley a, on thedriving shaft G, of the mill. The body of the fan-blower may be securedto the base of the hominy-mill in any suitable manner. The pulley end ofthe fan shaft s, is supported by the arm y', which projects from one ofthe angles of the base of the mill.

The series of toothed segments f, f, which are secured to the shaft D,and also the 'toothed segments g, g, on the inner periphery of the tubeA B, are segments of a circle of much larger diameter than that of thesaid tube; and the-se toothed segments are respectively placed in suchpositions with relation to each other that the segments f, f, on theshaft D, will draw gradually across the segments g, g, within the tubeA, B, and in an almost lengthwise direction, thereby producing acombined rasping and cracking action upon the kernels of corn let intothe said tube, of the greatest possible eficiency; which fact isdemonstrated by the astonishingly rapid production of hominy of the mostsuperior quality by the use of my improved hominy mill. And theaforesaid effect could not be produced did not the peculiar two-sidedshape of the shaft D, permit the above described toothed segments f, f,to be combined with the opposite faces thereof.

I shall not in all eases form teeth in the toothed segments and isoperated Within a edges of the segments which are combined tube Which isalso armed With Counteracting l0 with the inner face of the tube A. B.segments substantially in the manner herein What I claim as my inventionand desire set forth. 5 to secure by Letters Patent is- Gr. STRAUSE.4v

Giving to the shaft D, substantially the Witnesses: shape represented inthe accompanying JOHN E. SMITH, drawings, when the said shaft is armedWit-h I. W'OLFERSBERGER.

